Sorcerer's Guild of Magic Slot by Playtech

The whole game runs on the five Sorcerers, and each one only ever lands on a single dedicated reel. When one drops it fires a respin, and its power stays switched on for the rest of that sequence rather than paying anything on a line itself. Five silver crystal-ball stands above the grid light up one by one to show which elements you've charged, so you can read at a glance how many modifiers are live.

The five powers do different jobs. Nature, on reel one, converts another whole symbol type to wild. Fire on reel two hands you a multiplier of up to x10. Wind on reel three doubles the active winlines from 10 to 20, switching on the second bank of lines. Water on reel four strips one symbol type off the reels entirely, thinning the pool so the survivors connect more often. The fifth, Arcane, rounds out the set. Stack all five at once and you're running extra wilds, the x10, symbol removal and the full 20 lines together, which is the only real route to the game's top payout.

Two wilds feed the base game, a jewelled Ring and a pair of amber Earrings, and they show up only on the three middle reels. They stand in for the paying symbols but also pay on their own, five of the Ring or the Earrings returning 500x the line bet. There's no free-spins round bolted on, no buy option and no jackpot. The respins are the entire feature set.

It's set inside a wizards' library, oak bookshelves and columns fading back into warm lamplight, gargoyle bookends at each corner of the reels. The symbols are painted magic trinkets, round potion bottles glowing red, pink, teal and blue under heart-shaped stoppers, gold amulets set with amber, and a violet-haired sorceress in a choker up top. One detail that's easy to miss: the paylines score in both directions, left to right and right to left, so a run building from the last reel counts just as much as one starting on the first.